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Book Review: ‘Pleasantville,’ A Novel of Suspense by Attica Locke
Attica Locke takes us into a shadowy world full of money, lies and secrets in her newest novel, Pleasantville. Jay Porter, after a case that defines his career in the past, finds himself both broke and...
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President-Elect Trump — The Morning After
Yesterday morning, my grown daughter called me right about this time (7:00 a.m) emotional and excited to have cast her vote for what she hoped would be the first woman president. We both got teary, and...
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Anthem Film Review: ‘Democracy Through the Looking Glass: Media & Politics in...
“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Alice had to step...
View ArticleHow to Get 99% Voter Turnout in the US?
There’s lots of talk about the importance of getting out the vote. Yet there seems to be little discussion of existing models that could make that happen. Many countries have almost complete voter...
View ArticleAmerican Idiocracy: A Rant
Next month’s mid-term election is about more than individual issues, more than about jobs—and even more than about the economy. It is is about the entire direction of this country: where we’re headed...
View ArticleEmerging Political Trend: More Taxes, Please!
Despite the Tea Party rhetoric of cutting taxes and limiting spending, Americans are poised for supporting tax increase measures, according to this study. Most of these votes are cast in order to...
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Shooting in Tucson: An Inevitable Tragedy?
In the months leading up to last year’s mid-term elections, Tea Party candidate Sharon Angle floated the idea of using “Second Amendment remedies” for dealing with Congress. Sarah Palin ran a...
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Movie Review: Fools on the Hill
“Finally, something liberals and conservatives can agree on.” No such thing, you might be thinking, especially in the current hyper-volatile pre-election atmosphere. You might be even more skeptical...
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TV Review: The Newsroom –“112th Congress”
The opening credits of HBO’s The Newsroom loop various shots of familiar graphics: “Special Bulletin,” “Special Report,” “Breaking News” along with shots of the most venerable of newsmen. There was a...
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The Wake-Up Call of Fail Safe in 2012
I happened to be channel surfing this afternoon and landed on Fail Safe, the 1964 Cold War drama by Sidney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, and a very young Larry Hagman. It’s an...
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